The Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeNew American Library, 1958 - Всего страниц: 479 "The Origin of Species," by Charles Darwin, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"""series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of "Barnes & Noble Classics"
Darwin presented his stunning insights in a landmark book that forever altered the way human beings view themselves and the world they live in. In "The Origin of Species," he convincingly demonstrates the fact of evolution: that existing animals and plants cannot have appeared separately but must have slowly transformed from ancestral creatures. Most important, the book fully explains the mechanism that effects such a transformation: natural selection, the idea that made evolution scientifically intelligible for the first time. One of the few revolutionary works of science that is engrossingly readable, "The Origin of Species" not only launched the science of modern biology but also has influenced virtually all subsequent literary, philosophical, and religious thinking. George Levine, Kenneth Burke Professor of English Literature at Rutgers University, has written extensively about Darwin and the relation of science and literature, particularly in" Darwin and the Novelists." He is the author of many related books, including "The Realistic Imagination, Dying to Know," and his birdwatching memoirs, "Lifebirds."" |
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... naturalists maintain that animals never present varieties ; but then these same naturalists rank the slightest difference as of specific value ; and when the same identical form is met with in two distant countries , or in two geo ...
... naturalists as Agassiz and Pictet , maintain that all these tertiary species are specifically distinct , though the distinction is ad- mitted to be very slight ; so that here , unless we believe that these eminent naturalists have been ...
... naturalists as homol- ogous . He proposes to call the structures which resemble each other in distinct animals , owing to their descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification , homog- enous ; and the resemblances which ...
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VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION | 29 |
CHAPTER II | 58 |
CHAPTER III | 73 |
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